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The roles, responsibilities and perceptions of community health workers and ward-based primary health care outreach teams: a scoping review

Global Health Action, 2020
Background Community health workers play important roles in rural primary health care settings. They work within ward-based primary health care outreach teams yet their roles are not always clearly defined and operationalized.
Euphemia Mbali Mhlongo, Elizabeth Lutge, Lateef Adepeju   +2 more
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Payment of community health workers

The Lancet Global Health, 2022
Madeleine, Ballard, Margaret, Odera, Shreya, Bhatt, Beth, Geoffrey, Carey, Westgate, Ari, Johnson   +5 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Community health workers and health equity in low- and middle-income countries: systematic review and recommendations for policy and practice

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2022
Background The deployment of Community Health Workers (CHWs) is widely promoted as a strategy for reducing health inequities in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Yet there is limited evidence on whether and how CHW programmes achieve this.
Sonia Ahmed, L. Chase, J. Wagnild, N. Akhter, Scarlett Sturridge, Andrew Clarke, Pari Chowdhary, Diana Mukami, Adetayo S Kasim, K. Hampshire   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Community health workers experiences and perceptions of working during the COVID-19 pandemic in Lagos, Nigeria—A qualitative study

PLoS ONE, 2022
Background Community Health Workers are globally recognised as crucial members of healthcare systems in low and middle-income countries, but their role and experience during COVID-19 is not well-understood.
Zahra Olateju, T. Olufunlayo, C. MacArthur, Charlotte Leung, B. Taylor   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 9. CHWs’ relationships with the health system and communities

Health Research Policy and Systems, 2021
This is the ninth paper in our series, “Community Health Workers at the Dawn of a New Era”. Community health workers (CHWs) are in an intermediary position between the health system and the community.
K. Leban, M. Kok, H. Perry
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Equipping community health workers with digital tools for pandemic response in LMICs

Archives of Public Health, 2021
Background Community health workers (CHWs) are well-positioned to play a pivotal role in fighting the pandemic at the community level. The Covid-19 outbreak has led to a lot of stress and anxiety among CHWs as they are expected to perform pandemic ...
A. Feroz, Adeel Khoja, S. Saleem
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 6. Recruitment, training, and continuing education

Health Research Policy and Systems, 2021
This is the sixth of our 11-paper supplement entitled “Community Health Workers at the Dawn of New Era”. Expectations of community health workers (CHWs) have expanded in recent years to encompass a wider array of services to numerous subpopulations ...
M. Schleiff, I. Aitken, Mohammad Ariful Alam, Z. Damtew, H. Perry   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 5. Roles and tasks

Health Research Policy and Systems, 2021
This is the fifth of our 11-paper supplement on “Community Health Workers at the Dawn of a New Era.” When planning new community health worker (CHW) roles or expanding existing roles, programme planners need to analyse global and local research evidence ...
C. Glenton, D. Javadi, H. Perry
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 11. CHWs leading the way to “Health for All”

Health Research Policy and Systems, 2021
This is the concluding paper of our 11-paper supplement, “Community health workers at the dawn of a new era”. We relied on our collective experience, an extensive body of literature about community health workers (CHWs), and the other papers in this ...
H. Perry, Mushtaque Chowdhury, M. Were, K. Leban, L. Crigler, S. Lewin, D. Musoke, M. Kok, K. Scott, Madeleine Ballard, Steve Hodgins   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Community Health Workers in Pandemics: Evidence and Investment Implications

Global Health: Science and Practice Journal, 2022
Community health workers have long played a critical role in preventing, detecting, and responding to pandemics across the globe. To expand, improve, and institutionalize these services, changes in the approach to bi/multilateral aid and private ...
Madeleine Ballard, Ari D Johnson, I. Mwanza, Hope Ngwira, J. Schechter, Margaret Odera, Dickson Mbewe, Roseline Moenga, Prossy Muyingo, R. Jalloh, John Wabwire, Angela Gichaga, Nandini Choudhury, D. Maru, Pauline Keronyai, Carey Westgate, Sabitri Sapkota, H. Olsen, K. Muther, Stephanie Rapp, Mallika Raghavan, Kim Lipman-White, M. French, H. Napier, Lyudmila Nepomnyashchiy   +24 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source